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Scotland Outdoors

The aftermath of Storm Arwen, the Fairies of Glenshee and Hawick, the town of a 1000 Trails

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith present Scotland Outdoors

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:17.6

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0:22.0

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0:26.3

She was a born soldier.

0:27.4

She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense.

0:29.9

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0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.2

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.3

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:47.8

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:48.9

As you know, the Scotland Outdoors podcast is built from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

0:54.1

which is called Out of Doors. And because we're based in we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called

0:54.6

Out of Doors. And because we're based in the north-east of Scotland, and we had a terrible

0:58.8

storm last week, Storm Arwin, there were lots and lots of references to that.

1:07.0

And what a difference from last week? Last week it was still blowing a hulae here with Storm Arwen.

1:12.7

Very, very quiet this morning, although the really distinguishing sounds in the north-east

1:16.7

of Scotland at the moment are twofold.

1:18.7

The sound of geese passing over, there was a lovely flight went across just last night,

1:23.0

very calm, and you could hear the creak of the wings and the pinions and things.

1:27.1

It was lovely.

1:28.0

And chainsaws. There are chainsaws everywhere at the moment because of the amount of trees that are down.

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